Selenium - How to Click a Link by href value in WebDriver

Question

I have this piece of code

<a href="/iot/apply/device.do" id="subMenu1" class="fortification55"
                                                        onclick="$('#deviceinfo').hide()">Apply</a>

I am trying to link by href using

getDriver().findElement(By.name("subMenu1")).click();

But i got this error

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to find element with name == subMenu1 (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

You can also directly use getDriver().findElement(By.linkText("Apply")).click(); — Siva
– Siva, Commented Aug 22, 2016 at 11:58
you can also use xpaths: //a[@id='subMenu1'] or //a[text()='Apply'] — kotoj
– kotoj, Commented Aug 22, 2016 at 12:07
You can use as : getDriver().findElement(By.className("fortification55")).click(); — Saurabh Gaur
– Saurabh Gaur, Commented Aug 22, 2016 at 12:13

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-29 14:01:54Z

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As the element is having the onclick Event, the WebElement is a JavaScript enabled element. So to invoke click() on the element you need to use WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using cssSelector and only href attribute:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("a[href='/iot/apply/device.do']"))).click();

Using xpath and only href attribute:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//a[@href='/iot/apply/device.do' and text()='Apply']"))).click();

Using a canonical cssSelector:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("a.fortification55#subMenu1[href='/iot/apply/device.do']"))).click();

Using a canonical xpath:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//a[@class='fortification55' and @id='subMenu1'][@href='/iot/apply/device.do' and text()='Apply']"))).click();

Note : You have to add the following imports :

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;

References

You can find a couple of relevant discussions on NoSuchElementException in:

edited Jun 29, 2020 at 14:01

answered Jun 29, 2020 at 13:44

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Asmoun Over a year ago

@nice answer that should resolve the issue , and nice explination well done

Asmoun · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-30 08:47:58Z

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the following code should work :

By.xpath("//a[@href='/iot/apply/device.do']")

edited Jun 30, 2020 at 8:47

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